Substation Engineer

Primary Function:

Performs engineering work with a focus on substation engineering design including physical and/or protection & control practices. Requires knowledge of substation systems from 34.5kV to 500kV with familiarity with basic principles related to the engineering design or high voltage substations

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Duties & Responsibilities

Employee may be called upon to perform any/all of the following functions:

• Work within a project team to create all design documents and drawings for a project, including creating wiring diagrams from schematics, generating bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups of project as-built drawings with minimal supervision
• Perform Engineering support tasks such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit calculations with minimal supervision
• Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and load flow and short circuit studies with minimal supervision
• Review project Schedules and work with a project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule
• Properly use the document management sytem
• Apply corporate standard engineering practices
• Supervise project activities
• Communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineer, customer representatives, and others as needed
• Spend time at job sites to gain hands-on knowledge and additional training in substation construction and design
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and accuracy of his/her work
• Bring potential project-related problems and possible solutions to the attention of the responsible party
• Travel out of town for short periods of time as required by projects and assignments
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications / Experience

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degrees, from an accredited university. Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 4 years experience in substation engineering design with more senior level positions requiring 9 years or more in hands on engineering design

• Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry
• Experience in application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above
• Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems
• Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling
• Relay coordination experience is a plus
• Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
• Knowledge and understanding of three phase power systems
• Knowledge and understanding of per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components
• Knowledge and understanding of substation components and their functions
• Knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a projects
• Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI
• Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and e-mail software
• Communicating effectively with co-workers, vendors, clients, etc
• Ability to work in a team environment